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Camera Work: An Allegiance to Photography

Today's post refers to a few different topics I haven't written about.....yet! To avoid any confusion, you will find definitions for a...

A Platform Of Our Own: The Ubiquitous Photo Magazine

Photo magazines are nearly as old as the camera itself. For nearly 150 years of the camera's 200(ish) year history, a photo publication...

Exposed to Light: Imogen Cunningham

Pick a niche, maybe two, and make that your photography business. That is the advice I have been given time and time again on being a...

Unpacking Things: The Kitchen Table Series

"Art" is a big word. Try to encapsulate all of it's meaning/purpose in a sentence and you, undoubtedly, will exclude some part of the...

On The Edge Of Our Mind: The Americans

Post war America was like a based-on-a-true-story film. The basic ideas of how Americans lived were there, but in the end the film takes...

Not So Far Apart: A Harlem Family

Gordon Parks, the first African American correspondent for LIFE, makes history with his photo essay A Harlem Family in 1969.

An Empathetic Glimpse: Country Doctor

Eugene Smith was an absolute master at the empathetic glimpse. He understood that the best images come from familiarity.